Perry Gladstone Christie seems to be proud of his new slogan; ” I am the bridge from Sir Lynden to the future.”<\/p>\n
Really? What does he really mean? Well, maybe we should revisit the past.<\/p>\n
When the PLP won the government in 1966 it inherited a disciplined and admired Civil Service.<\/p>\n
Fast track on the “Bridge” to the future. We now have a bloated and inefficient Civil Service, with an entrenched history of malfeasance.<\/p>\n
I remember quite well when the ubiquitous drug trade was at its peak in the seventies and eighties.<\/p>\n
Every family island settlement located on the coastline, had a major drug trafficker operating therein.<\/p>\n
Virtually all of the local drug barons were PLP Generals. Fast forward on the “Bridge,” the drug boys who were not awaiting extradition have graduated into enforcers.<\/p>\n
Sir Lynden craftily cultivated a culture of mistrust of foreigners and white people, and it kept him in power for a long time.<\/p>\n
Fast forward on the “Bridge” the “New” PLP are still chewing on this old, stale, contaminated bone, thereby keeping the PLP’s spirit of xenophobia fully entrenched.<\/p>\n
WE PUT BAHAMIANS FIRST, is merely their euphemism for intolerance.<\/p>\n
Let me explain. This slogan is calculated to infer that the FNM puts foreigners and white people first.<\/p>\n
They are well aware that this is a lie, but they don’t care as long as their supporters suck it up.<\/p>\n
The FNM parliamentarians are all raw bone Bahamians, it is so disingenuous and silly to accuse them of putting foreigners before Bahamians.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the PLP (true to form) continue to live down to my low estimation of them.<\/p>\n
However, I expected at least one new candidate to defy the norm. Dr. Michael Darville is a well-liked, well-respected, prominent physician in Free-port.<\/p>\n
I know his father and I know him.<\/p>\n
Regrettably, he has fallen prey to the PLP’s Achilles’ heel, race division.<\/p>\n
I am a proud Bahamian whose ancestral roots are deeper than the hole that the PLP are digging for themselves.<\/p>\n
I love The Bahamas more than any other country and Bahamians more than any other nationality.<\/p>\n
As a real Bahamian man, my priority has always been God, country, mother, wife, and daughters.<\/p>\n
Perhaps, that is why I chose to marry a Bahamian woman, cause’ I PUT BAHAMIANS FIRST.<\/p>\n
In The Bahamas, there is the saying that Bahamian women have excelled more so than Bahamian men.<\/p>\n
Consequently, eligible successful Bahamian males are in short supply. I suspect that there are scores of successful eligible single Bahamian women who would have wanted to marry prominent Bahamian PLP politician men.<\/p>\n
However, many are married to foreign women. Is that putting Bahamians first?<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong, I have no beef with Bahamians marrying foreigners.<\/p>\n
Their spousal choice is their business. However, when you enter politics and start being hypocritical…you make it my business!<\/p>\n
Furthermore a word of caution to those PLP men who married foreign women, you are being disrespectful to your wives when you continue to use the phrase “we put Bahamians first.”<\/p>\n
Just for the record, Hubert Alexander Ingraham, has done more for Bahamians than any other Bahamian, former Prime Ministers or otherwise.<\/p>\n
His regime has benefited Bahamians of all complexion and class distinction, especially the poor.<\/p>\n
So please stop this repugnant nonsense, “we put Bahamians first.”<\/p>\n
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